Of All The Books In All The World, Holder Chose This One
[guest post by Dana]
In an exit interview, Eric Holder was asked which book he would recommend to a young person coming to Washington. His choice was “The Autobiography of Malcom X”.
Holder explained:
“I say this not to every African-American of his age, but for every American, that you read ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’ to see the transition that that man went through, from petty criminal to a person who was severely and negatively afflicted by race, to somebody who ultimately saw the humanity in all of us,” Holder said. “And that would be a book I would recommend to everybody.”
It’s not a surprise he chose this book, after all, fighing against racism has been at the top of his priority list since becoming Attorney General. Further, those who know him, have explained that “he is a race man”.
But seriously, if you had to choose the definitive book to encourage a young person who was heading to Washington, what would it be and why?
–Dana
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Dana (86e864) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:01 amThe Constitution and The Federalist Papers.
DRJ (e80d46) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:06 amEspecially Federalist No. 10.
DRJ (e80d46) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:11 amNow that’s just crazy talk, DRJ.
Dana (86e864) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:11 amGood choice DRJ.
njrob (4bee3c) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:13 amEl Hajj Malik el-Shabazz occupies an exalted perch in the fascist imagination
“the transition that that man went through” is … he became an America-hating muslim
what other book could Holder possibly choose really
happyfeet (831175) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:15 amHolder should read Federalist No. 51.
DRJ (e80d46) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:15 amJay Winik’s the Great Upheaval, it’s a comparative history of the US, the French Revolutions, and an attempt at an liberal one in Russia,
narciso (ee1f88) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:17 amI know it’s considered passe around these parts, but I’d still recommend Atlas Shrugged as it really speaks to the times we are living in. How’s our Anti-Dog Eat Dog world working out with the government deciding what’s best for all.
njrob (4bee3c) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:18 am“One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”
It teaches realism, focus, attentiveness and discernment, among other things.
nk (dbc370) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:19 amwhaa?
the fish are white and gold
happyfeet (831175) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:20 amHmm, “realism” is not a word I like except in paintings. What’s a good word for “get to what’s real”?
nk (dbc370) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:21 amhave explained that “he is a race man”.
If leftism were a race (or “race”) that ultimately would be the only race he’d give a damn about.
if you had to choose the definitive book to encourage a young person who was heading to Washington, what would it be and why?
I don’t know if there’s any definitive book out there (although such a tome would presumably be from an author delving into human psychology) that probes the basic nature of the following, but “do-gooders” in particular (generally all of the left) should be aware of this reality 24/7, 365 days a year:
Mark (c160ec) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:32 am“The Devil’s Dictionary” by Ambrose Bierce. For the clarity.
mojo (a3d457) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:40 amIt’s striking that Holder values Malcolm X’s story over Martin Luther King’s.
DRJ (e80d46) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:45 amAny of those would be superior recommendations.
DRJ (e80d46) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:46 amWherever there are still axes to grind, young children to be indoctrinated and steeped in a sense of their own victimhood and productive people to be shaken down, there you will find people like Eric Holder.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:51 amThe Dice Man, by Luke Reinhart. It would improve their decision making.
carlitos (c24ed5) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:51 amBall Four
mg (31009b) — 2/28/2015 @ 10:52 amIt changed everything!
Mr. Holder? Hello? You were not oppressed by The Man. You were The Man!
nk (dbc370) — 2/28/2015 @ 11:00 amIf one was going to insist on a book about the black experience, I would suggest “My Grandfather’s Son, ” by Clarence Thomas. I suggested it to both my younger daughters.
Anything by Thomas Sowell would be good.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 2/28/2015 @ 11:03 amUnder three things the earth quakes, And under four, it cannot bear up: Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food, Under an unloved woman when she gets a husband, And a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
nk (dbc370) — 2/28/2015 @ 11:06 amDidn’t change the mullions or the scunions, mg!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/28/2015 @ 11:13 amBenjamin Franklin- An American Life by Walter Isaacson
This book subtly forces us to notice the kinds of things that are missing in our politics and politicians today.
elissa (6050b4) — 2/28/2015 @ 11:27 amhttp://www.amazon.com/The-Birth-Modern-Society-1815-1830/dp/1455158127
Paul Johnson, a Brit, understands American Exceptionalism. Our leaders need to relearn it.
Steven Malynn (b2805a) — 2/28/2015 @ 11:51 amBy any means necessary! When dr. samuel johnson was asked by boswell what he thought of the american revolution going on at the time he said. I observe those who scream the the loudest about freedom and libert are the slave holding southerners. Somethings never change!
truther (0ae7ac) — 2/28/2015 @ 12:02 pm“I observe those who scream the the loudest about freedom and libert are the slave holding southerners. Somethings never change!”
truther – Democrats are still trying to keep black people on the plantation even though they cannot legally own them any more, so there is some truth to your observation.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/28/2015 @ 12:17 pmFrom Mark Twain’s Running for Governor
“By this time there had grown to be such a clamor for an “answer” to all the dreadful charges that were laid to me that the editors and leaders of my party said it would be political ruin for me to remain silent any longer. As if to make their appeal the more imperative, the following appeared in one of the papers the very next day:
BEHOLD THE MAN! — The Independent candidate still maintains Silence. Because he dare not speak. Every accusation against him has been amply proved, and they have been endorsed and re-endorsed by his own eloquent silence till at this day he stands forever convicted. Look upon your candidate, Independents! Look upon the Infamous Perjurer! the Montana Thief! the Body-Snatcher! Contemplate your incarnate Delirium Tremens! your Filthy Corruptionist! your Loath some Embracer! Gaze upon him — ponder him well — and then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open his mouth in denial of any one of them!
There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to “answer” a mass of baseless charges and mean and wicked falsehoods. But I never finished the task, for the very next morning a paper came out with a new horror, a fresh malignity, and seriously charged me with burning a lunatic asylum with all its inmates because it obstructed the view from my house. This threw me into a sort of panic. Then came the charge of poisoning my uncle to get his property, with an imperative demand that the grave should be opened. This drove me to the verge of distraction. On top of this I was accused of employing toothless and incompetent old relatives to prepare the food for the foundling hospital when I was warden. I was wavering — wavering. And at last, as a due and fitting climax to the shameless persecution that party rancor had inflicted upon me, nine little toddling children of all shades of color and degrees of raggedness were taught to rush on to the platform at a public meeting and clasp me around the legs and call me PA!
I gave up. I hauled down my colors and surrendered. I was not equal to the requirements of a Gubernatorial campaign in the State of New York, and so I sent in my withdrawal from the candidacy, and in bitterness of spirit signed it,
“Truly yours,
“Once a decent man, but now
steveg (794291) — 2/28/2015 @ 12:17 pm“MARK TWAIN
“truther – Democrats are still trying to keep black people on the plantation even though they cannot legally own them any more, so there is some truth to your observation.”
This is a comment to a post about attorney general Eric Holder and the Autobiography of Malcom X?
sing (bbbfe8) — 2/28/2015 @ 12:32 pmso things really haven’t changed in a 140 years, re Twain
narciso (ee1f88) — 2/28/2015 @ 12:35 pmHolder is an ass and a clueless one to boot. In his interview he was extremely critical of his predecessor Albert Gonzales, yet later went on to claim that criticism of him was racist. Given that people in high places are naturally subject to criticism, what makes criticism of Holder racist while his criticism of Gonzales is not?
Thresherman (dcd9d2) — 2/28/2015 @ 12:44 pmShhh! Don’t say that too loudly, DRJ. According to the latest DoJ report on terrorism, the major threat isn’t
Islamicrandom individual terrorism. It’s right wing terrorism. And the DoJ advises law enforcement that they can spot right wing terrorists by, among other signs of evil, their talk about the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other founding documents.If you keep going on about the Constitution and the Federalist Papers you’ll get yourself on a watchlist.
Steve57 (4fafea) — 2/28/2015 @ 12:56 pm31. Remember, in the leftist dictionary, the definition of racist is “a white person”, war is peace and Eastasia has always been our enemy.
kishnevi (9c4b9c) — 2/28/2015 @ 12:58 pmGet them started with The Pirate Coast to bring them up to date on current events.
Give them a few more chuckles with What Do You Care What Other People Think?” as this will help them understand why things are so screwed up.
Followed by Road to Serfdom which will caution them about the dangers of good intentions.
Finish up with The Thomas Sowell Reader as this will give them hope that we can get out of current predicament by thinking logically about our problems.
bobathome (f208b6) — 2/28/2015 @ 12:58 pmIn answer to the original question, this one:
kishnevi (adea75) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:04 pmhttp://www.amazon.com/Discourses-Livy-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199555559/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1425157309&sr=8-2&keywords=Machiavelli+Discourses
Look, if we’re going to be honest then we have to say Eric Holder is a racist. Black racists even have a racist definition of racism. Black racists can’t be racists because of their race. Whites are always racist because of their race.
That suits the race obsessed left because in their hypocrisy they approve of certain forms of racism. So it’s no surprise that he’d recommend the biography of Malcolm X as required reading.
This is the AG that refused to prosecute the Black Panthers to the point where he dropped the case even after it was won. And when questioned by Congress referred to them as “my people.”
If we have an objective definition of racism, that is pure, unadulterated racism.
Steve57 (4fafea) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:16 pmTwain’s “What Is Man”
wtp (1fa689) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:21 pmCol – I remember someone yelled from the dugout “F-U- Shakespeare”, whenever Bouton was pitching against them.
mg (31009b) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:22 pm34… good picks, Bob!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:23 pmLook at this latest nonsense from Eric Holder. First some background.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/21/politics/holder-activist/index.html
So after that we are supposed to believe this.
There’s no other way to say it; Eric Holder, the self-proclaimed leftist social justice warrior, wants to make it easier to prosecute whites for non-crimes against blacks. We know this how? Because we have ample evidence that under Holder his voting rights division refused to prosecute cases in which black voting officials disenfranchised whites. Voting rights laws exist to protect minorities against whites, not the other way around.
And this activist AG who put his finger on the scale during his entire tenure has the chutzpah to say that lowering the bar to make it easier to railroad people would reassure the American people that the DoJ is acting as a “disinterested” party.
Only a very biased party would even suggest changing the law.
Steve57 (4fafea) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:30 pmand the senator Sarah Palin gave us, one Mr. Orrin Hatch, he couldn’t confirm Eric Holder’s fascist trollop of a successor fast enough
America’s ruling class it sucks something
I’m trying to think what
happyfeet (831175) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:38 pm“This is a comment to a post about attorney general Eric Holder and the Autobiography of Malcom X?”
sing – It was a reply to truther’s comment on the subject? What is your issue?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:38 pmWhy would I want to encourage someone going to DC? They’ve already made more than
one major mistake and probably more.
We need to shift the focus in this country to the states and the people and DC should
be focusing on them and not the reverse.
jakee308 (49ccc6) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:39 pmi love that comment Mr. 308 person that’s a very good point
happyfeet (831175) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:40 pmFacing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity By Robert L. Moore
http://www.robertmoore-phd.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_ID=50&ParentCat=11
But really, there are so many. All Men Are Brothers, M.K.Gandhi. Inner Work, Robert A. Johnson. Ultimate Voyage: A Book of Five Mariners, by William Gilkerson.
Malcom X might be in my list of 100. First or only, no.
htom (4ca1fa) — 2/28/2015 @ 1:54 pmThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer. In particular, a quote by Goering on the eve of the 1933 elections:
“Fellow Germans, my thinking will not be crippled by any judicial thinking – I don’t have to worry about justice; my mission is only to destroy and exterminate, nothing more! – Certainly I shall use the power of the State and the police to the utmost, my dear communists, so don’t draw any false conclusions; but the struggle to the death, in which my fist will grasp your necks, I shall lead with those down there – the Brownshirts.”
If the young person heading for Washington has any sense of history, they will already know that the book is a cautionary tale.
PPs43 (6fdef4) — 2/28/2015 @ 2:10 pm“Nineteen Eighty-Four” By George Orwell
“The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith.
Choose one.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/28/2015 @ 3:44 pmmg… I had a friend who was the visiting team locker room manager at Angel’s Stadium (before he moved up to the home team slot) and the stories he would tell us back then were often hilarious, but the lack of respect for women was not so good.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/28/2015 @ 5:26 pmyes Col. those were the days, my dad coached a kid who became a well known baseball G.M. and the things I heard are non-repeatable on these pages.
mg (31009b) — 2/28/2015 @ 6:39 pm#34: Thanks Colonel! I’d thought about recommending “Nothing Like it the World”, or “Freedom’s Forge”, but I think the idea that nasty capitalists managed to bridge the continent in a handful of years with railroad tracks and then they had the nerve to follow this up by producing B-24s and Sherman Tanks (aka Bronson lighters) with the same tempo as Ford pickups in order to crush two opponents who were smashing the rest of the world in WWII, would have left most recent high school graduates comatose with a case of irresolvable cognitive dissonance.
Better to let them chuckle that a Nobel Laureate in Physics (that would be Feynman) was the only member of the State Board to actually read the tripe the publishers were going to force onto California’s hapless students. The “professional” educators couldn’t be bothered. But then again, if they graduated from “teachers colleges” (now called “Universities”), they wouldn’t have been able to read the books anyway. The anecdote about one publisher’s hookers meeting up with Feynman in an elevator in San Francisco (if memory serves) would only add a bit of humanity to the entire fiasco.
bobathome (f208b6) — 2/28/2015 @ 7:32 pmArt of War, Sun Tzu.
sing (bbbfe8) — 3/1/2015 @ 4:57 amBill Jensen’s book “Simplicity”.
LTMG (94c4c3) — 3/1/2015 @ 7:56 amAll the King’s Men
Leviticus (ffa156) — 3/1/2015 @ 4:24 pmMy Side of the Mountain
happyfeet (831175) — 3/1/2015 @ 4:27 pmThe Autobiography of Malcom X is an important book, but I don’t believe Eric Holder has read it, not all of it anyway. It’s got something of an O’Henry ending and challenges most of what Holder stands for. It fact it’s a repudiation of him, Louis Farrakahan, Jeremiah Wright, and Barack Obama.
It’s been quite a while since I read Malcom’s autobiography (published posthumously) but I do recall that he’d joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) while doing an 8 to 10 year stretch (for Larceny – B&E) in the Charlestown State Pen (Incarcerated in February 1946 – Paroled in August 1954) where his attitude and behavior earned him the nickname among fellow inmates as Satan.
(Unless otherwise noted, quotes and background information largely from Wikipedia)
On his release Malcolm joined NOI’s founder, Elijah Muhammad, in Chicago and was soon appointed Assistant Minister of the NOI’s Detroit Temple #1 and assigned the task of recruiting new members. That same year he opened a new Temple in Boston, and in March of the following year he expanded Philadelphia’s Temple #12. Two months later he was selected to lead Temple #7 in Harlem. The next year he opened 3 more Temples: Springfield, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; and Atlanta, Georgia.
During 1955, Malcolm continued his astonishingly successful recruitment efforts. Tall and handsome, well groomed, well dressed, and with impressive speaking skills, (Sound a bit familar?) he quickly attracted many thousands of new members. From the mid ’50s to the mid ’60s NOI membership grew from about 500 to over 25,000, some estimates put it as high as 50 to 75,000. A feather in his cap, Malcom recruited boxer Cassius Clay into the NOI and renamed him Muhammad Ali.
From Wikipedia:
By 1960 Malcom’s provocative opinions and his fiery denunciations had attracted worldwide attention. He was invited to official UN functions hosted by several African member states. He met Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Guinea’s Ahmed Sekou Toure, and Kenneth Kaunda of the Zambian National Congress. Fidel Castro met with him privately and invited him to visit Cuba.
However, in the face of Malcom’s international notoriety and his list of achievements, ominous storm clouds were gathering in the offing. Elijah Muhammad was clearly jealous of his protege’s string of successes, and Malcom was becoming evermore disillusioned by persistent rumors of Elijah Muhammad’s extramarital affairs with young NOI secretaries – which was a serious breach of the Nation’s fundamental teachings. Malcom’s investigations revealed the rumors were true although Elijah Muhammad attempted to justify his predatory behavior by citing biblical precedents.
By 1963, Malcom’s stature had grown to the point it become a threat to Elijah Muhammad’s leadership. Publishers were interested in Malcom’s upcoming autobiography and the tight circle of established Black Muslim leaders centered around and dedicated to protecting Elijah Muhammad feared Malcom’s autobiography would be the vehicle for Malcom’s eventual takeover of NOI. Additionally, they saw Louis Lomax’s book on the NOI, When the Word is Given, as a harbinger of Malcom’s certain ascension. Although Lomax’s book was intended to publicize the NOI, it featured Malcom’s picture on the cover and included 5 of his speeches and only 1 by Elijah Muhammad, which created an uproar of anger, envy, and jealousy.
Ironically, it was the assassination of President John F Kennedy which gave NOI conspirators their opportunity to silence Malcom. 10 dsys after Kennedy was killed, Malcom was asked to comment on the assassination, he said Kennedy’s murder was a case of “chickens coming home to roost”. He unfortunately added that “chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad.”
After observing his period of silence, on March 8, 1964, Malcolm X announced his break with the NOI. Although he would remain a Muslim, he recognized the NOI’s rigid teaching restricted it’s future utility. He planned to organize a new black nationalist political organization to “raise black political consciousness” and announced his sincere desire to cooperate with the very civil rights leaders he had so often and so unkindly denigrated. Malcom blamed Elijah Muhammad for preventing him from doing so previously, although the ugly tenor and personal denunciations of his many previous pronouncements indicated a simmering personal animosity.
However, in the spirit of a new unity, Malcom met briefly with Martin Luther King, Jr for the first and only time for a photo op as both men observed the Senate debate on the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Bill. Later, in April, Malcolm X gave his famous speech titled “The Ballot or the Bullet” where he advised American Negros to organize and vote but warned that if illegitimate legislation prevented Negro citizens from achieving equality with whites, it might become necessary to take up arms.
That speech sealed Malcom’s fate. Lyndon Johnson had assumed the presidency on JFK’s death and would face election for POTUS on his own in only 7 short months. The last thing LBJ needed was a unified Civil Rights Coalition opposing his escalation of the War in Vietnam or questioning his role in JFK’s assassination. J Edgar Hoover’s FBI was already far advanced in it’s illegal pogrom to divide the nation and undermine MLK, and Hoover’s Gestapo now turned it’s malevolent attention to the crucial task of neutralizing Malcom X.
The secret deal was consummated. Birds of a feather agreed – Malcom must die. The unholy cabal turned their backs, put Malcom in the cross hairs, and abandoned him to JFK’s fate. (MLK and RFK would soon follow). As NOI’s conflict with Malcom intensified his life was repeatedly threatened. In February his car was bombed, in March Elijah Muhammad told Louis X (later known as Louis Farrakhan) that “hypocrites like Malcolm should have their heads cut off.” The April edition of NOI’s newspaper, Muhammad Speaks, carried a cartoon of Malcolm X’s severed head bouncing along.
On the 8th of June, FBI surveillance recorded a threatening call to Malcom’s wife that her husband was “as good as dead.” On June 12th an FBI informant reported that “Malcolm X is going to be bumped off.” NOI went to court attempting to claim Malcolm’s residence in Queens, NY. His family was ordered to vacate but on February 14, 1965, the night before a hearing on postponing the eviction the house was fire bombed and totally destroyed.
On July 9th 1965, Elijah Muhammad’s aide, John Ali, (an undercover FBI agent) referred to Malcolm X by saying, “Anyone who opposes the Honorable Elijah Muhammad puts their life in jeopardy.” In the December 4th issue of Muhammad Speaks, Louis X (Farrakhan) wrote that “such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.” The September 1964 issue of Ebony magazine had dramatized Malcolm’s brave defiance of these multiple threats by publishing an iconic photograph of him holding a rifle (30 cal. carbine w/banana clip) standing guard at the window of his home with his family inside.
During this dangerous time several influential Sunni Muslims encouraged Malcolm to learn about the true tenets of Islam and not to be deceived by the bastardized beliefs of Elijah Muhammad’s NOI. Consequently, in April of 1964 Malcom went to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on his obligatory hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca for all Muslims able to do so. After overcoming US State Department efforts to obstruct his pilgrimage, Malcom was informed the Saudi government had awarded him the status of an official guest of state, and after his hajj was completed Malcom was granted an audience with Prince Faisal.
The Hajj changed Malcom’s life. He wrote the following during his pilgrimage to Mecca in April of 1964:
On February 21st, 1965, as Malcolm X was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom someone in the audience yelled, “Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!”
John Ali, National Secretary of the Nation of Islam (and as an FBI undercover agent) had been previously described by Malcolm to news reporters as responsible for exacerbating tensions between him and Elijah Muhammad. Malcom clearly identified Ali as his “archenemy” within NOI leadership. And, it was later confirmed that Ali held a secret meeting with Malcom’s assassin, Talmadge Hayer, (later convicted of killing Malcolm) on the night before the murder.
Malcom’s family pointed the finger directly at Louis Farrakhan. And in a 1993 speech Farrakhan acknowledged that the NOI was responsible:
Later, In a May 2000 60 Minutes interview, Farrakhan also admitted that some things he said may have led to the assassination of Malcolm X.
In the end, Malcom X had evolved from the angry criminal preaching racial hatred who was released from prison in 1954 and had come to see beyond the confines of racial differences to acknowledge that light skin, blond hair and blue green eyes didn’t automatically define the limits of humanity.
And, as a consequence, Malcom was gunned down in cold blood in public to send a strong message, just like JFK, and just like the others who would follow him: MLK and RFK, and for exactly the same reasons. He represented the possibility of a challenge to LBJ’s prevailing establishment power structure. And, ultimately for exactly the same reasons that nearly 48 years later Obama and Hillary blamed the orchestrated murders in Benghazi on an obscure video tape.
ropelight (43464f) — 3/1/2015 @ 4:47 pmThe Martian Way by Isaac Asimov. It’s a novella actually, and in books appears combined with other stories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Way
Unfortunately, Barack Obama appears to have read the first third of The Foundation instead.
Sammy Finkelman (a551ff) — 3/1/2015 @ 4:55 pmCatch-22. – for the insanity of it all.
Otto Maddox (990b3b) — 3/2/2015 @ 12:49 am“The Autobiography of Malcom X is an important book, but I don’t believe Eric Holder has read it, not all of it anyway. It’s got something of an O’Henry ending and challenges most of what Holder stands for. It fact it’s a repudiation of him, Louis Farrakahan, Jeremiah Wright, and Barack Obama.”
Here’s what Holder said:
“I say this not to every African-American of his age, but for every American, that you read ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’ to see the transition that that man went through, from petty criminal to a person who was severely and negatively afflicted by race, to somebody who ultimately saw the humanity in all of us,”
Maybe it’s a repudiation of how some view Holder?
sing (bbbfe8) — 3/2/2015 @ 4:47 am@56, I recommend this, for the insanity of it all.
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL32665.pdf
Hot off the presses as of 24 February 2015. If Congressional Research Service reports are your sort of thing this one is a real tearjerker. Some low lights:
Navy procurement programs are always more expensive then originally estimated. Always. So the planned shortfall will grow larger when reality hits. There is some comedic relief toward the end of the report.
Bwahahaha! Hasn’t everyone figured out by now that President “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” was lying when he claimed the US was going to “pivot” to Asia (how many times has Prom Queen talked about pivoting to jobs). Our citizen of the world Preezy made one campaign promise I believed. He promised he was going to end our bad “habits” that keep leading us to enter wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. That I took to mean ending America’s ability to maintain the military and naval forces that enable us to even contemplate it.
The “pivot” to Asia was just a smokescreen to hide his intended retreat to domestic spending on bloated new entitlements, unrestricted unskilled illegal immigration to grow those programs, crippling the US economy, and send us further spiraling into debt.
In once sense we really are going to keep the plan this time. Unlike his Obamacare promise. If by plan you mean PLAN; the People’s Liberation Army Navy. This debtor nation’s pivot to Asia will amount to paying to build up our Chinese creditor’s navy.
My review of this CRS report? I cried, I laughed, I experienced the full range of human emotion.
Steve57 (1640d5) — 3/2/2015 @ 11:22 amBy “Heading to Washington”, I’ll presume it’s for work, somehow connected to government — either for an ancilliary firm or for the government itself.
If you’re doing that, I think it’s a given you should long since have read The Constitution and The Federalist Papers…
As a result of that inherent presumption, my own nomination would be for P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores. But only because of that.
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d) — 3/2/2015 @ 4:51 pm